WordPress 4.8.2 Security Release
WordPress 4.8.2 was released today and is considered a security release. Site owners are strongly encouraged to update immediately. Previous versions of WordPress (4.8.1 …
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WooCommerce.com adds live chat support
Getting support on WooCommerce.com extensions has steadily improved over the last few years. The ticket system has been upgraded and the response times have …
HTTPS security warnings being sent by Google
We’ve been talking about Google’s push towards HTTPS quite a bit this year. Now, we’re seeing e-mails being sent from Google to website owners …
Delete LayerSlider WP if you are not using it
LayerSlider WP is a seemingly ubiquitous content slider that comes bundled with over 900 WordPress themes available at themeforest. If you run a premium …
Add a collaborator to a WooCommerce account
We work with a lot of store owners running WooCommerce. Most of those customers also run at least a few WooCommerce extensions to extend …
WooCommerce 3.1 introduces native product import & export
The release of WooCommerce 3.1 included a number of great additions for store owners and we’ve found it to be stable and virtually conflict-free …
Remove expired SSL certs before adding Let’s Encrypt
We love Let’s Encrypt because it makes running an SSL certificate easy to set-up, it renews automatically, and provides tough data encryption. You might …
Let’s Encrypt to offer wildcard SSL’s
Great news folks!! Starting in January 2018 Let’s Encrypt will start issuing wildcard SSL certificates. They cite that wildcards have been a common feature …
How Do I Update / Manage My Credit Card
We make it easy for you to manage and update your credit cards and payments for our subscriptions. If you’ve received an email that …
The Importance of Monitoring Your WordPress Website for Security Issues
High-profile website hacking cases have dominated the headlines over the past few years, with everyone from national governments to tech giants like Yahoo! being …
Has My WordPress Website Been Hacked?
Unfortunately, hacking is a very real and prevalent problem faced by countless online entities. WordPress, as one of the internet’s most popular platforms for …
WordPress Ecommerce Support: WooCommerce
WooCommerce is a popular platform for running businesses online, allowing business owners to process online transactions through their own websites. If you’re one of …
Google’s push towards HTTPS
Google has been leading the charge to create a safer internet; one where it is not easy for hackers to snoop your connection or …
WooCommerce 3.0 released
After a slight launch delay, WooCommerce has released a major new update, with new features, and a new versioning system. Here’s a quick breakdown …
WooCommerce Stripe plugin now requires PHP 5.6
We use Stripe as our payment processor here at Cinch. We love the streamlined approach to almost everything Stripe does – from the user …
The Best WordPress Backup Solutions
74.6 million unique websites depend upon WordPress to stay up and running every day, with six new posts being uploaded to the site every …
How to get your webhost to upgrade to PHP 7
As we saw last week, the WordPress push towards upgrading to PHP 7 is gaining steam. While this effort as a whole is very …
WooCommerce 2.7 release delayed, version changing to 3.0.0
We were expecting a brand new, major release version of WooCommerce to be released today (2.7), but in a post on the WooCommerce Dev …
Avoid Blackhat SEO spam and save your online reputation
Malicious SEO hacking is known by many names—“Blackhat SEO”, “Dirty SEO”, “SEO Poisoning”—but in the end the result is always the same: your site …
Optimizing a ThemeForest theme
WordPress themes from ThemeForest are perhaps the most popular premium themes available. Themes like Avada, X | The Theme, and Enfold have over 100,000 …